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Attention Directors and Creatives
If you would like to direct a show for the Peterborough Theatre Guild's 2026/27 season, click the link below and complete the required form. Once submitted, you will receive a follow-up email from the submission coordinator.
Please send inquiries to our Co-Chair and Submission Coordinator Jason Shulha at ptgplayselection@gmail.com
Volunteer Backstage
THE GUILD PRODUCES eight or nine plays a year in our own facility. Volunteers make this all possible. It can take a team of up to 100 people to make a show happen. Some work for one evening, some design and build before a show opens and some volunteer each night of performance. Others serve year-round on our Board and other committees.
For those new to theatre, we have skilled and talented people who can work with you while you learn. We always welcome people to fill the following roles:
Front of House:
• Box Office
• Ushers
• Bartenders
• House Managers
Production Crew:
• Set Building
• Set Painting
• Props
• Technical Operator
• Stagehand
• Stage Hair and Make-up
• Production Assistant
• Costumes and Wardrobe
• Social Media
• Photographers
• Community Development and Sponsorship Outreach
Those with more experience can assist with:
• Directing
• Producing
• Stage Managing
• Musical Direction
• Choreography
• Set Design
• Set Construction
• Costume Design
• Lighting Design
• Sound Design
To become a Peterborough Theatre Guild Volunteer please fill out our Volunteer Application Form using the button below.
Upcoming Auditions
Midnight Madness
by Dave Carley
Director: Jane Werger
Producer: Diane Théberge
Stage Manager: Marilyn Robinson
Midnight Madness is a touching romantic comedy set in Carley's hometown of Peterborough in 1985, called Ashburnham in the play. Wesley, a lonely salesman, and Anna, a feisty customer and former classmate, meet by chance at Bloom’s Furniture "going-out-of-business" sale near midnight. With honesty and wit, the characters look back at the 1970's and face the difficult high school memories that shaped their lives.
AUDITION DATES
Monday, October 20: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Tuesday, October 21: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Auditions take place at the Peterborough Theatre Guild in Studio A (Gwen Brown Studio).
Please sign up online for the first available time slot. Please arrive ten minutes before your audition to fill out a form. You will be auditioning in groups of 4. It is not necessary to have read the play.
SHOW DATES
February 27, 28, March 1m, 5, 6, 7, 8m, 12, 13, 14
Evening show: 7:30 pm
m= matinees at 1:30 p.m
casting:
Wesley Marshall, in his early 30’s:
- a salesman at Bloom’s furniture store for the past 10 years
- the store has become his safe, “belonging” place
- Presbyterian background, principled
- lonely (few dates)
- intelligent, quick-witted and clever with slogans
Anna Bregner, the same age:
- struggled to become a lawyer (now about to set up shop)
- left Toronto to return to hometown
- single mom with teenage son, Jason (Anna’s mother helped to raise him)
- 1970’s-spirited, lively, determined
The voice of Mr. Bloom, 75:
- a business man, owner of the local, iconic furniture store
- about to retire and close the store, after 50 years
- fond of his employee, Wesley
- Russian-Jewish ancestry
- witty (speaks via the intercom in his office)
- is seen only at curtain call, but it’s a sweet role anyway.
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